Description: This photograph depicts the Michigan Bell Telephone Company building in Detroit, Michigan designed by Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls. Youngstown pipe was used in this building. On the photo is written: "MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO. DETROIT YOUNGSTOWN PIPE" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F47_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry; Detroit (Mich.); Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates
Places: Detroit (Michigan); Wayne County (Michigan)
 

Description: This is the front facade of the Michigan State Capitol. This Neoclassical building is a national historic landmark housing the Michigan Legislature and offices of the state’s governor and lieutenant governor. This is the third building to serve as state capitol and was dedicated in 1879. Elijah E. Myers, of Springfield, Illinois, was the architect. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_536
Subjects: Capitols--Michigan; National Register of Historic Places; domes (architectural elements); columns (architectural elements); Neoclassical
Places: Lansing (Michigan); 100 N. Capitol Ave.
 

Description: Thousands of fugitive slaves crossed into freedom in Canada over this river in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. This photograph, from Alvord and Company, was made from an 1850 image in the C. M. Burton collection. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03077
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Michigan; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Detroit (Michigan); Wayne County (Michigan)
 

Description: Engraved portrait of Laura Smith Haviland (1808-1898). Haviland was an operator on the Underground Railroad, in Raisin (Adrian), Lenawee County, Michigan, because she believed it was her religious duty. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03074
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Michigan; Slavery--Ohio--History--19th century; Slavery--Michigan
Places: Raisin (Michigan); Lenawee County (Michigan)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan designed by Merritt J. Morehouse. Youngstown pipe was used in the sanitarium. On the photo is written: "BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM BATTLE CREEK, MICH. YOUNGSTOWN PIPE" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F47_009
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry; Battle Creek Sanitarium; Michigan
Places: Battle Creek (Michigan); Calhoun County (Michigan)
 

Description: George W. Clark was involved in the Underground Railroad in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. This engraving was done by Blomgren Brothers. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03075
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Michigan; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Detroit (Michigan); Wayne County (Michigan)
 

Description: Seymour Finney kept a station on the Underground Railroad in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. This cabinet card is from Arthur and Philbric, 204 and 206 Woodward Ave, Detroit. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03076
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Michigan; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Detroit (Michigan); Wayne County (Michigan)
 

Description: Seymour Finney kept fugitive slaves in his barn in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The Chamber of Commerce Building shown in this photograph is standing where the barn once stood. This photograph was taken by Abrams, ca. 1885-1900. The men in the photograph are not identified. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03078
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Michigan; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Detroit (Michigan); Wayne County (Michigan)
 

Description: 1955 calendar advertising and themed around Ohio author and conservation advocate Louis Bromfield's famed Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. The full-color twelve-month calendar includes color photographs by Joe Munroe and short caption essays by Louis Bromfield. Calendar verso pages feature longer essays on the history and rehabilitation of Malabar and vignettes of farm life also written by Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a carte des visite photograph of General Alpheus Starkey Williams (1810-1878), who was a military leader during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. This card photograph is among the images in the William T. Sherman Photograph Album. Williams served under General Sherman in the Atlanta Campaign and in the March to the Sea. Alpheus Starkey Williams was born in Deep River, Connecticut. Both parents died by the time he was 17 but left him an estate that allowed him to graduate from Yale College in 1831and then to study law. He moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1836 and was admitted to the bar in 1837. In addition to practicing law, he was a probate judge, publisher of the “Detroit Advertiser,” and a member of the board of education. He enlisted in the local militia, the Brady Guards, rising from the rank of private in 1838 to becoming major general in the Michigan Militia within 20 years. From 1847 to July 1848, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the First Michigan Infantry during the Mexican-American War. He returned to Detroit and worked as city’s postmaster from 1849 to 1853. In 1855 the Brady Guard became the Detroit Light Guard and Williams its captain and leader. By 1859 the unit had expanded into a battalion of two companies, and Williams had achieved the rank of major. In spring 1861 he was commissioned a brigadier general of Michigan Volunteers and of United States Volunteers. He commanded troops that fought in the Shenandoah Valley against Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s men; in the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Resaca, and on Brenner’s Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg. During the General William T. Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Williams commanded the First Division, XX Corps. In November 1864 Williams became commander of XX Corps, the first troops to enter Savannah, Georgia. In January 1865 he was brevetted the rank of major general. His fatherly concern for his men earned him the nickname “Pap.” Williams left the military in January 1866 and launched an unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign. In fall 1866, President Andrew Johnson appointed him Minister Resident to El Salvador, a post he held until 1869. Williams ran successfully for Congress in 1874 and 1876, and as a U.S. Representative worked hard on behalf of military veterans. He died December 21, 1878, and was buried in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04361
Subjects: Williams, Alpheus S. (Alpheus Starkey), 1810-1878; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Atlanta Campaign, 1864; Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891; Sherman's March to the Sea
 

Description: Portrait of Robert Lucas (1781-1853), who served as Ohio's 12th governor from 1832 to 1836. Prior to his governorship, he served in both the regular army and the state militia of Ohio, rising to the rank of major general after the War of 1812. As governor, he personally led the state militia to the Michigan border during the "Toledo War," in which Ohio and Michigan both claimed the community of Toledo. Eventually President Jackson stepped in, and Congress decided that the land belonged to Ohio and compensated Michigan by giving it additional land in the Upper Peninsula. In 1838, President Martin Van Buren named Lucas the governor of the new Iowa Territory, a position he held until 1841. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03992
Subjects: Governors--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio. Militia; Toledo (Ohio)
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: Farming is a difficult task and requires a lot of manpower. On this farm in Marquette, Michigan, a wife helps her husband cut firewood in the days before the chainsaw. Photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F08_006
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms
Places: Marquette (Michigan)